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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I felt this way as well. But you might benefit from reading more old school sociology books. C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination is great (should have been taught in college to you). Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Cl
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
A Fine Balance is an excellent book. I second the recommendation. It too features Parsis of Mumbai and the disconnect between them and the poorer laborer class, especially during the Emergency.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Am I the only one who feels Tucker Carlson is so popular because he (a lot like Donald Trump) was willing to challenge the false idols of the Republican establishment (e.g. we need to be at war in Afghanistan/Iraq, the free market isn&
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Maybe the best system is honor code + encourage students to tell the Prof / administration if another student is cheating. Cheating all on your own is difficult if you also have to hide it from your peers.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Do you remember in Uni pulling all nighters for projects / classes? It was stressful, often painful, often resulting in you being a mess for a few days afterwards. If you did this, you'd know it had all the signs of burnout attach
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Google Duo (the FaceTime competitor afaik) works fine and I have used it with all my family for a while now. There's also WhatsApp video which is pretty poor quality, imo. Duo is much clearer and higher quality.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
But that's 1/300 of the amount of aid they received spent on exec bonuses. In the booking.com case it's almost half the amount of aid spent on exec bonuses
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
>If you like to go out on the weeks and drink 8 beers with your friends, all the more power to you. People have been drinking since time immemorial, it's part of who we are as human. This just isn't true at all and it's pr
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
'bog-standard'?
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
These are feelings, not facts. Homeschooling is not largely populated by people with "extremist" beliefs. Such people are too low in number to be largely populating anything. 5 million parents in the US were officially homeschooli
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I think OP agrees with you and is trying to say that the tendency of us to prefer institutions over families can lead to this. For example, I know when I was a kid the school teachers and people were constantly worried about me and my famil
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Some unaccounted things: 1) You have to pay extra to get a landlord to agree to the risk of housing a homeless person with likely no way to pay rent if the government program ends who also is more likely to have drug problems / mental
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Can you recommend some Faulkner mysteries? I loved his style and the world he built and could always go for more.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Yes, Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" is not autonomous enough to operate without you paying attention to the road at all times. But they advertise it as if you can sleep in the driver's seat (I think they literally have said
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Realistically, when parents get old, it is their children who become responsible for them. I feel like this is quite common sense... especially seeing as children inherit from their parents...
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
>People just parrot that viewpoint without asking whether some amount of Keynesian economics is useful, because you know, government is evil. This just isn't an accurate portrayal of any of the serious criticisms of Keynesian econom
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I believe there are some use cases. Think of a government which does not allow currency conversion to more stable currencies in a place where volatility or inflation is very high. In that situation, it might be worth adopting a crypto-first
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I don't, but they're easy to spot because they look really leftist and they often post about the left-wing news of the moment while at the same time downplaying Uighur atrocities. They often mostly retweet and are poor in communic
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Indian propaganda is similar (I'm more familiar with it, being Indian). You can see the parallels in how both talk about their hated minorities (Uyghurs and Kashmiris/Muslims) My favorite was a recent Twitter account with a teenag
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I don't have an account with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. I dislike lots of social media. Here's what I like about TikTok: 1) Quality content 2) Excellent content curation (better than YouTube recommended videos) 3) Not need
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I had a feeling this was the case and even had a discussion with some colleagues about whether they paid up or not. Like the article says, they couldn't afford not to.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
More important than laws in India he is making the govt look bad. That can get you killed and there won't even be a headline about it
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
"making the code read like English" is what doomed Semantic UI. There was a brief period of popularity for it, but looking at all the popular Bootstrap-type libraries now, none of them try to be "semantic" or "read
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I moved to TN, anecdotally.
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
>Girls tend to be taught to worry about the feelings of other people more than their own and to conform to social expectations and to cave to social pressure. Trying to live up to high ideals about all people deserving to be treated well
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
You're right. Prominent unicorn competitors to WeWork filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic. One example below https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/05/a-look-at-how-proptech-sta...
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
As I get older I'm realizing it's more efficient to trust my gut than science communication or journalism on scientific issues. Social media companies and YouTube hire armies of phds in psychology to make their products as addicti
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I don't agree that it's too hard to not talk about politics at work. I have been doing it as a rule at most of my jobs for years now without thinking of it (and so do most workers). The idea that mentioning public school is "
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
So what? Obviously a company entirely reliant on mobile users wouldn't be able to stand up to the mobile duopoly. That's entirely why opinion is split about the issue
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
But many conservative viewpoints are not hostile to identities. If I don't agree with Affirmative Action, am I hostile to someone's identity? A majority of Californians at the ballot box will disagree with AA but none of them will

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